Cours/séminaire

Jacob Bas

(Vrij Universiteit Amsterdam)

will give a presentation on

André Groeger

(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

will give a presentation on

Jing-Rong (Rosa) Zeng

(IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain)

will give a presentation on

Ella Sargsyan

(IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain)

will give a presentation on

Andrea Caria

(University of Cagliari)

will give a presentation on

Paula Gobbi

(ULB)

will give a presentation on

Pablo Álvarez Aragon

(UNamur)

will give a presentation on

With more than 70 successful flights, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter demonstrated the feasibility of aerial exploration on Mars and opened the door to similar missions on other planets. Future planetary rotorcraft will be bigger and heavier to accomplish new scientific and exploratory goals. However, the flow induced by highly loaded rotors poses a risk of forming dust clouds during take-off and landing, a phenomenon known on Earth as brownout.

Exploiting fluid-structure interactions using flexible structures and actuation can improve performance in biologically inspired swimming and morphing airfoils. Open challenges in this realm are the efficient high-fidelity simulation of such fluid-structure interaction phenomena, especially in three-dimensions, as well as solving inverse problems for optimal design and control.